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Astrophysics

JAXA's XRISM mission was successfully launched at 23:42 UT 06 September.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...

Heliophysics

The Parker Solar Probe made its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter reached its 6^th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.

The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.

Lunar and Planetary Science

A set of coronal mass ejections are heading towards Earth and should arrive by late May 10th or early May 11th, triggering a severe (G4) geomagnetic storm. Effects may include aurora visible as far south as Alabama to northern California. For more information see the NOAA space weather page.

The CNSA (China) Chang'e-6 lunar sample return mission launched on May 3 at 09:27 UT (5:27 p.m. Beijing time) on a Long March 5 booster from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center and entered lunar orbit on 02:21 UT, May 8.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully started transmitting engineering data on 20 April for the first time since November 14, 2023. A software fix circumvented a chip failure that had prevented useful data from being sent. For more, see the JPL news release.